[115189] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cogent input
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marshall Eubanks)
Thu Jun 11 11:33:56 2009
From: Marshall Eubanks <tme@americafree.tv>
To: kratzers@pa.net
In-Reply-To: <200906111103.22079.kratzers@pa.net>
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 11:31:01 -0400
Cc: nanog@nanog.org, NANOG <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Jun 11, 2009, at 11:03 AM, Stephen Kratzer wrote:
> Perhaps you missed my quote:
>
> "Cogent's official stance on IPv6 is that we will deploy IPv6 when it
> becomes a commercial necessity. We have tested IPv6 and we have our
> plan
> for rolling it out, but there are no commercial drivers to spend money
> to upgrade a network to IPv6 for no real return on investment."
FWIW, they have said basically the same thing about multicast.
Regards
Marshall
>
>
> This came rom a contact at Cogent (not sure of the role, probably
> sales rep).
>
> On Thursday 11 June 2009 10:49:13 Bret Clark wrote:
>> I'm skeptical as to where this info came from since this seems
>> nothing
>> more then nay-say? if people are going to make grandiose statements
>> then
>> they should justify them with reputable evidence. I would be
>> extremely
>> surprised if Cogent engineering isn't working on a IPv6 plan or
>> doesn't
>> have one already in place.
>>
>> Bret
>>
>> On Thu, 2009-06-11 at 10:37 -0400, Steve Bertrand wrote:
>>> Stephen Kratzer wrote:
>>>> And, they have no plans to support IPv6.
>>>
>>> Ouch!
>>>
>>> I hope this is a non-starter for a lot of folks.
>>>
>>> Steve
>
>
>
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